Compiling Guppy-PE extension modules

[Claudio Grondi]

"Sverker Nilsson" <sverker.is at home.se> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1133294011.245923.218130 at z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> I have been informed that Guppy-PE (http://guppy-pe.sourceforge.net)
> has failed to compile its extension modules with a Microsoft .NET 2003
> compiler under Windows 2000.
>
> [To the person who informed me about this in an email per 27 Nov:
>     Thanks for your message.
>     I couldn't reply to you because your email address bounced my
> mail.]
>
> One of the problems, seems to be string constants in the C source that
> contain newlines. I am using GCC on Linux so, I missed this with the
> standard warning options. Compiling with -pedantic reveals 'a lot' of
> places where this is a problem.
>
> I could fix this but it takes some work and it makes the source code
> less readable so I was wondering ...
>
> Is this a common problem? Or maybe it is just the compiler version
> mentioned that doesn't handle it?
>
> Does someone know of some switch to enable the Microsoft compiler to
> accept strings with newlines?
>
> If so, the setup could perhaps be made to pass this switch to the
> compiler when building under Windows.
>
> Or else,..
>
> somebody knows about a script to convert the files to the format the
> Microsoft compiler wants? I guess the build compilation could then be
> setup to pipe them through this or otherwise convert the files as
> needed.
>
> Otherwise, I guess I'll just have to hand-hack around this problem,
> write a conversion script, or whatever. I will see.
>
> Sorry for any inconvenience so far.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sverker Nilsson
>
> PS. I know it's not ANSI-correct but why do we have to work to make
> our source codes less clear?
>

Thank you for posting to comp.lang.python .

Beside the problem with the multiline strings in sets.c I was getting also:

src\sets\sets.c(70) : error C2099: initializer is not a constant
src\sets\sets.c(71) : error C2099: initializer is not a constant
src\sets\sets.c(71) : warning C4028: formal parameter 1 different from
declaration
src\sets\sets.c(72) : error C2099: initializer is not a constant
src\sets\sets.c(72) : warning C4047: 'initializing' : 'PyTypeObject *'
differs in levels of indirection from 'int (__cdecl *)(PyObject *)'
src\sets\sets.c(72) : warning C4028: formal parameter 1 different from
declaration
error: command 'E:\VisualC++NET2003\Vc7\bin\cl.exe'
failed with exit status 2

Anyone here who succeeded to compile and use this module with
Python 2.4.2 on Windows 2000/XP? Please share your experience.

Claudio